WikiLeaks has made documents allegedly collected from CIA director’s personal email account publicly available online. Moreover, the whistleblower claimed it was just the first series of publications. A few days ago, the news emerged that the personal email account of the top spy of the United States was breached by high school students (at least they said so), who threatened to release the contents of the personal emails.

According to the recent agreement, China has promised not to use cyber-espionage to steal commercial secrets from the United Kingdom. Xi Jinping, China’s president, spoke positively about improving human rights during his state visit. On his part, David Cameron publicly brushed aside concerns about cooperating with an undemocratic nation and announced cooperation on sensitive issues of security.

The Irish data protection watchdog will investigate Max Schrems’ complaint over the privacy practices of the social network. The move follows a 3-year legal fight by the Austrian privacy campaigner. A few days ago, the High Court in Dublin quashed the Irish data protection commissioner’s original refusal to examine the student’s complaint filed on the issue of the alleged movement of his information outside of Europe by Facebook.

22 of the world’s major tech firms, including Apple, Google, Twitter and Wikipedia, are firmly against the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). On the other hand, 12 firms back the legislation or have remained silent, including Comcast, HP, Cisco and Verizon. The bill is aimed at tightening Internet security and is being harshly criticized as infringing on civil liberties and privacy.

Surprisingly enough, online piracy rate has significantly dropped in the country, for the first time in several years! It was noted that the drop coincides with the launch of Netflix, whose consumers admitted they are pirating less now and pointed at legal alternatives as the main reason.

The BBC started blocking internet users from outside of the UK from accessing iPlayer. According to Torrentfreak, there are many reports from VPN users who can no longer access BBC iPlayer from several popular VPN services.

BBC iPlayer is an internet streaming catchup TV service for people in the United Kingdom and abroad. The service is available for a wide range of devices – phones, smartphones, laptops and PCs. According to BBC report, iPlayer is watched by more than 65 million people using VPN. 38 million people – are users from China.

VPNs,or Virtual Private Networks, have many, many uses – including allowing people outside the UK to stream video from iPlayer. You must be in the United Kingdom to watch iPlayer across the internet; using a UK VPN masks your true location, and convinces the BBC you're in the country and thus allowed to view iPlayer.

One of the Italian ISPs started to notify its customers of severe consequences of regular sharing of copyright infringing materials. In the announcements sent to subscribers, the Internet service provider warns that their accounts may be permanently blocked to protect the company. This move was made following pressure from such Hollywood studios as Viacom, Paramount and MGM.

A number of major international tech giants, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are urging the American government to leave domain name registrars alone and not to place them on the yearly overview of piracy-facilitating markets. The tech firms explain that registrars and other third party providers cannot be held responsible for the actions of their customers.

The tech giant has sued over 1,000 unidentified people alleged of providing fake reviews on Amazon.com. The company filed the case in the United States last week, saying that its brand reputation was being tarnished by misleading reviews.